City one was pretty cool. Will put up some of the neater things I read about later.

Medieval Village is a history of farming for the most part and how much each villager plowed, what they owed their lord, how much the paid for certain fines. It is the economical side of it and I want to know about the people, not that "Tom Freeman paid six shillings for uneven plowing of his furlong." There are some interesting bits and pieces, but for the most part a economic history and not really what I care about.

Just finishing up the Bourne Identity trilogy. I actually really enjoyed them. Still a hundred pages or so left of the last one, but I really like them. Hmmm, wonder where Talon came from. hehehehe. A poor attempt at a fantasy Bourne-type character. We will see if he fleshes himself out. Will have to read Day of the Jackal again too.

Can't wait to get my eyes around the Count of Monte Cristo. I REALLY liked that movie and my library doesn't have the book.

Yay, Xanth! It's actually pretty hard to find others who have even heard of that series, much less like it. It's unbelievable.

I have to admit I really enjoy the first eight in the Xanth series, but it seemed to get too corny and repetitious. Almost like he ran out of material.

Peirs AnthonyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s other series are like that too, I think the Blue Adept series has at least nine books and is worth reading but you can see that the story is getting a little stretched at the end of the series.

All in all I thin he is a good author, but that he beats a dead horse a little longer than he should.

In honor of our orcs thread, I am rereading LOTR with the thought in my head to look for the *evil* orc characterizations...if there are. There are probably other resources, Tolkien books, that may even go into greater detail...although I could never get into the Silmarrillion (sp?) and such so I may have missed out on some things.

Either way, a reread is definately not a waste.

(PS. I got the Fellowship exta 4-disc extended blah blah box set. There are some cool additions to it and I think worth getting.)

There are probably other resources, Tolkien books, that may even go into greater detail...although I could never get into the Silmarrillion (sp?) and such so I may have missed out on some things.

I tried to read the silmarrillion once. I only got half wasy through, but I can tell you the gist of it. It is a history of middle earth. It goes on about EVERYTHING that happened before the hobbit. It is extermely confusing.

PS. sorry about the quote thing

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With mysteries, I lean towards books that have a female as the central character. I can put myself in her place as I read, and the story becomes my own.

With fantasy/sci-fi, I've read R.A. Salvatore's Dark Elf novels, and I love Anne McCaffrey...her novels on the dragons of Pern are wonderful!!!

With romantic suspense, I like Catherine Coulter's FBI series, and Nora Roberts wrote a series with witches as a focal point. But with these kind of novels, I don't care how much sex is in it...it's not good if no one is murdered.

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The moonlight reflects off her silvery-blue fur, tis the she-wolf stalking through the night.

To be honest, the majority of what I read these days is either online fanfiction (particularly that produced by the fellows at http://www.eyrie-productions.com, and the work produced by my own beloved in a fanfiction series I'm helping her with writing.

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"I grab the sword!""Mmkay, you're dead.""What!?""You just grabbed the sword of the god you were just personally responsible for banishing from the world for the next ten thousand years. You just got zapped by around a billion volts of Angry Divine Power. You're dead."

I have spent many an hour reading these four books. They're a sort of fantasy/detective mix in a sci-fi-ish setting. What might have happened if Richard the Lion-Hearted hadn't diedtaking part in the crusades? Maybe this world would have resulted. Very good books that will keep you guessing until the end..

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Though many think they're kid's books, the Broken Sky series by Chris Wooding is pretty good.Did I already say Frank Herbert's Dune Series? The series, or at very least, the first book, should be mandatory reading for every single human being on the planet Earth.